Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice
We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.
Investing in equitable climate solutions that address the country’s legacy of environmental racism while working to ensure that all communities have the right to breathe clean air, live free of dangerous levels of toxic pollution, access healthy food, and share the benefits of a prosperous economy
Creating good, clean jobs at home
Laying the groundwork for an urgent transition to a clean energy economy that works for all, creating millions of well-paying jobs with the opportunity to join a union, and improving the quality of life for all Americans in the process
Protecting nature
Addressing the linked climate and biodiversity crises by conserving 30 percent of all U.S. lands and water by 2030 and promoting natural solutions to the climate crisis that benefit all communities
Restoring U.S. climate leadership on the global stage
By taking strong and equitable domestic action, we restore the ability to bring countries together to reduce emissions and help developing countries transition to carbon-neutral economies and adapt to inevitable impacts
By the numbers
$3.1T
The cost to U.S. taxpayers from extreme weather events in 2025
The Affordability Conundrum: A Debate on How To Deliver Immediate Relief While Expanding Supply
Please join the Center for American Progress for an event featuring a panel of leading economic thinkers who will debate the trade-offs of various policy approaches to address current affordability challenges.
The Trump Administration’s Fixation on Greenland Reinforces That Climate Change Is a Threat to Americans
Climate change is causing the Arctic to warm at an alarming rate, threatening to heighten geopolitical tensions in the region; yet instead of combating this threat, President Trump has halted all U.S. international climate action, putting Americans’ security at risk.
In an op-ed published by DC Journal, Angelo Villagomez discusses the Trump administration’s reckless push to allow deep-sea mining in the U.S. Pacific territories.
Trump’s climate war could cost America a generation, if we let it
In an op-ed published by El País, Frances Colón argues that the Trump administration is undermining climate science in ways that will hobble American competitiveness for generations.
Los Angeles Wildfire Survivor Is Struggling To Get the Insurance Payouts That She Needs To Return Home
The home of Rossana Valverde, a storyteller with the organization Extreme Weather Survivors, was left essentially untouched by the flames from last year’s Eaton Fire. But the fire did leave toxic, cancer-causing residue in its wake.
After the Los Angeles Wildfires, One Altadena Couple Reveals the Lasting Impacts of Extreme Weather Disasters
It’s been one year since the L.A. fires. Eaton Fire survivors Katie and Marco Delgado talk about the climate-fueled fires, losing their house, and the challenges they’ve had with insurance.
La intervención militar de Trump en Venezuela beneficia a las grandes petroleras, no al pueblo estadounidense
La administración Trump arriesgó las vidas de militares estadounidenses con sus recientes acciones militares en Venezuela, todo en un esfuerzo por beneficiar a sus donantes petroleros a pesar del alto costo para los contribuyentes.
Trump’s Military Intervention in Venezuela Serves Big Oil, Not the American People
The Trump administration’s recent military actions in Venezuela risked the lives of American service members at a steep cost to the American taxpayer, all in an effort to benefit the president’s Big Oil donors.
How Fossil Fuels and Global Extreme Weather Increase Americans’ Food Prices
Fossil fuels and the climate change they cause are worsening extreme weather events that disrupt global food supply chains and increase costs for Americans at the grocery store.
Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration
A new CAP analysis finds that the federal government is rife with officials who deny climate change in leadership positions within the executive branch, presidential Cabinet, and Congress.
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